A collaboration between top U.S. professors and seasoned Silicon Valley technologists, empowr is the world’s first platform to seamlessly integrate a next-generation social network, marketplace, cryptocurrency, and educational and political systems. The result is a democratic social economy that belongs to, and is controlled by, its users. During its alpha phases, empowr invented hundreds of critical technologies, many of which are patented and used every day by billions of people, which include virtual currency, applications in social networks, transactions within apps, and transactions over mobile devices.